Still the iBook

Having an iBook is really, really great. It behaves nicely, it looks cool, it'sfast and, so far, reliable, I don't have to wait for it to shutdown/startup, Isimply close it when I'm done and open it when I need it and it takes less than10 seconds (maybe 2 or 3) to go into or out of sleep mode.

One thing that is good to have around is someone who already knows of all thetrouble of setting up a Mac computer, because that really saves time:-)

So far, I'm pretty pleased with this thing.

Current problems:

* I'd like to use the middle mouse button to open new tabs on Firefox, but I have no idea of how to do that yet (not I've tried very hard anyway)

* I can't compile anything:-| I'll try to install gcc sometime during the day (as soon as I get the time) to see if that solves the problem

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The iBook I tested had perl 5.8.3 (IIRC) but installing perl modules seemed a bit uhm hard. For the brief moment I had it, the user management on iBook seemed to prevent me from installing stuff. It complained about an administrator user?!? It was a default set-up tho.

Apple ships a full set of dev tools, including gcc, make, and all the rest of the command line stuff you'd be used to, as well as a very nice set of GUI tools (Interface Builder and XCode). The install's optional since a lot of folks just don't need it, but it is there to install and it is free.

Poke around and see if you don't have a developers tools installer somewhere on the machine, and if you don't then see if there's a dev tools disk in the set of CDs/DVDs that ship with Apple machines.

Try reinstalling, since something's apparently gone wrong. (You should have gcc in/usr/bin/gcc, so you wouldn't even need to fire off a new Terminal session to get it into your path) I don't remember the dev tools installer being particularly stingy in its defaults, but it can't hurt to customize the install and make sure everything gets installed. It's only disk space, after all...:)

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is likely empty (I don't have one and GCC works just fine) though crt1.o should be in/usr/lib. Definitely looks like something's toast in your install, which is really weird -- Apple is generally very good about making sure the right stuff gets installed.

A quick poke at the Shub-internet shows that this is a symptom of the DevSDK package not being installed, so you might want to fire up the dev tools installer and make sure that one's installed.